Devrimci Karargâh ( en, Revolutionary Headquarters) was a nominally Marxist-Leninist organization in

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. DK first came to public attention in April 2009, when some of its members were involved in a six-hour gun battle with police in the

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neighbourhood of

Bostancı Bostancı is a neighbourhood of Kadıköy, located on the Anatolian side of Istanbul, Turkey, on the shore of the Sea of Marmara. As the easternmost neighbourhood of the Kadıköy district; it borders Suadiye and Kozyatağı (also neighbourhood ...

, leading to the death of a policeman, a bystander, and the organization's leader Orhan Yılmazkaya. 20 of its members were arrested in September 2009. DK is also held responsible for several bomb attacks in 2008/9. Journalist Aylin Duruoglu was detained for over six months for knowing one of DK's alleged members. Former police chief

Hanefi Avcı Hanefi Avcı (born 1956, Kahramanmaraş Province) is a former chief of police in Turkey,biografie.netHanefi Avcı/ref>Hanefi Avci: ''Haliç’te Yaşayan Simonlar: Dün Devlet Bugün Cemaat'' (English: ‘Devotee’ Residents of Haliç: Yesterday ...

, an Islamist-leaning conservative, is also accused and was charged in the

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of the

Ergenekon trials The Ergenekon trials were a series of high-profile trials which took place on 2008–2016 in Turkey in which 275 people, including military officers, journalists and opposition lawmakers, all alleged members of Ergenekon, a suspected secularist ...

. DK may have been infiltrated by Turkey's

National Intelligence Organization The National Intelligence Organization ( tr, Millî İstihbarat Teşkilatı, MİT) is the state intelligence agency of Turkey. Established in 1965 to replace National Security Service, its aim is to gather information about the current and po ...

(MIT): MIT agent Murat Şahin was arrested in a raid on the DK in December 2011, and released a week later and his file separated from those of others arrested.

Firat News Agency Firat News Agency (ANF) ( ku, Ajansa Nûçeyan a Firatê, tr, Fırat Haber Ajansı) is a Kurdish news agency that gathers and broadcasts news from the Middle East, broadly concerning Kurdish matters. The news agency has offices in Amsterdam and j ...

, 2 February 2013
Former secret agent: Güney member of MIT
In February 2017 Devrimci Karargâh announced it was dissolving and becoming part of the

Revolutionary Communard Party The Revolutionary Communard Party ( tr, Devrimci Komünarlar Partisi, DKP) is a left-wing political organisation founded on 4 February 2016, following the merger of the Liberation Movement and the Turkish Revolutionary Party. The DKP is part of t ...

, the main organisation composing the

United Freedom Forces The United Freedom Forces ( tr, Birleşik Özgürlük Güçleri, or BÖG) is a joint expatriate militia of several revolutionary socialist organizations from Turkey, most notably the Revolutionary Communard Party (DKP), active in the Rojava c ...

References

External links

The Army of the Imam: Avcı, Ergenekon and Epilogue
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